Camargo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kamaxɡu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Camargo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Panama it is the 51st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Camargo, España.
- UYUruguay1 in 597(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 808
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- #872 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 597 (inferred from the name graph)
≈61,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Camargo, España
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Camargo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #126 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 808 | 35 | Camargo | 170 |
| VE Venezuela | #352 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Camargo | 54 |
| AR Argentina | #480 | 12,381 | 1 in 3.7K | 12K | Camargo | 74 |
| US United States | — | 9,626 | 1 in 35K | 9.6K | Camargo | 296 |
| PE Peru | #539 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Camargo | 70 |
| BO Bolivia | #125 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Camargo | 49 |
| UY Uruguay | #121 | 5,677 | 1 in 597 | 5.7K | Camargo | 51 |
| PA Panama | #51 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 22 | Camargo | 47 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alberto Lleras Camargob. 1906COColombian journalist and politician (1906-1990)
- Guillermo Ortiz Camargob. 1939MXMexican footballer (1939-2009)
- Joel Camargob. 1946BRBrazilian footballer (1946-2014)
- Christian Camargob. 1971USAmerican actor
- Maria Ritab. 1977BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian recording artist, singer
- Claudia Dobles Camargob. 1980CRFirst Lady of Costa Rica
- María Elisa Camargob. 1985ECEcuadorian actress and singer
- Luiz Camargob. 1987BRBrazilian footballer
- Everton Camargob. 1991BRBrazilian association football player
- Miguel Camargob. 1993PAPanamanian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.6K | #3,689 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.5K | #3,634 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.5K | #4,949 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 5.7K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 35 | #81 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 22 | #156 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #143 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Camargo mean, and where does it come from?
- Camargo, España Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Camargo?
- A machine transcription gives /kamaxɡu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Camargo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 61 thousand people named Camargo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled camargo.
- Where is Camargo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Camargo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 597 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Camargo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 12,381 people named Camargo, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Camargo compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Camargo is the 126th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/camargoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Camargo” — the 126th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.